Boris Johnson declares Britain can have a 'great future' outside the EU in a new dig at David Cameron as the PM prepares to face MPs with his Brussels deal
Mayor's new intervention comes hours after he revealed he backed Brexit
Cameron is due to address the Commons on his Brussels deal at 3.30pm
Boris electrified the Out campaign with his Sunday night announcement
He gave the PM just nine minutes notice before making doorstep speech
Boris has joined Michael Gove and other top ministers on Brexit campaign
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Boris Johnson today insisted Britain would have a 'great future' outside the European Union hours after he left David Cameron reeling by backing Brexit.
In a further sign of the energy and excitement the London Mayor will bring to the Leave campaign, Mr Johnson today cycled away from his home surrounded by an enormous pack of photographers.
Mr Johnson insisted he wanted to talk about his final City Hall budget today, warning there would be 'plenty of time' to discuss the EU.
But as the Prime Minister prepares to face down his party and sell his EU deal in Parliament, Mr Johnson repeated his view of a bright future for the UK.
After his statement last night, Mr Johnson was today again met by photographers outside his home. His decision to join Michael Gove, pictured right today, has electrified the Out campaign
He said today: 'There will be plenty of time to talk about Europe and the great future Britain can have outside the European Union in the next few weeks.'
The mayor electrified the Leave campaign last night with his doorstep declaration he was coming out against Mr Cameron.
The Prime Minister was reportedly left 'absolutely furious' with Mr Johnson following his speech, which invoked the glories of the British Empire and the leadership of Winston Churchill to say the country which gave the world parliamentary democracy should not subject itself to ‘legal colonisation’ from the EU.
Mr Cameron will try to get back on the front foot this afternoon with a major Commons statement on the marathon EU summit where he finalised his deal late on Friday night. The Government is also due to publish its report on why Britain should stay in the EU.
In other developments today:
Stanley Johnson, Boris' father, said his son's declaration could be a 'career ending move' if he ends up on the losing side.
The pound was left weakened off the back of the big name endorsements for the Vote Leave campaign over the weekend. City analysts warned over the uncertainty caused by the referendum.
Former foreign secretary William Hague has insisted David Cameron has achieved more than any other Prime Minister and is making the right recommendation to Britain.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon insisted the government would not be broken up by Tory arguments over the European Union
It remains unclear whether Mr Cameron will be joined on the front bench by eurosceptic ministers today.
Within minutes of his Downing Street address to the nation on Saturday morning, six Cabinet ministers had rushed to a Vote Leave campaign rally to start working against him.
The most senior of them, Justice Secretary Michael Gove, was pictured leaving home this morning with his ministerial red box.
Mr Johnson cycled away from his Islington home today to present his final City Hall Budget before his term as London Mayor ends in May
And Defence Secretary Michael Fallon today insisted the business of government would continue despite Tory splits on Europe.
Stanley Johnson today insisted his son was not positioning himself for career purposes.
He told the BBC it was hard to think of 'any more career-ending move' than opposing the Prime Minister.
He said: 'If he wanted to get a nice job in the cabinet... this is certainly not the way to do it.'
Mr Cameron was backed by his close ally William Hague today.
Mr Hague, who as Tory leader in 2001 ran a general election campaign founded on euroscepticism, said Mr Cameron had beaten the EU at its own game.
In a Telegraph column, he said: 'He came back with the European Union less powerful over the affairs of the UK than when he arrived, and left it with considerably weaker prospects of increasing its power in the future.
'For decades his predecessors have fought rearguard actions against new powers and rights for the EU.
'He is the first to have turned the pressure the other way around.
'Coming on top of his unique achievement of securing an actual reduction in the EU's budget, this entitles him to rather more praise than he often receives.'
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Mr Johnson made his declaration outside his home last night finally ending months of speculation about which side of the battle he would come down on
Mr Fallon said the declaration of Mr Johnson was not a huge blow to Mr Cameron's campaign.
He told the BBC: 'Well obviously he would have liked more support from Boris but he's taken his individual view.
'But it is up to each individual citizen to make their view now.'
Mr Fallon insisted that it would not lead to the break-up of the Government or the Conservative Party.
He said: 'Even those who wanted to leave made it absolutely clear [at the Cabinet] that we are going to come together again because there is work to be done.
'If you look back at the 1975 referendum, the then Wilson government came back after the referendum. The party stayed right through that parliament.
'The PM to his credit is allowing members of his Cabinet to dissent. He's allowing Tory MPs to express different views.'
Lord Lawson, who is chairing the Vote Leave campaign, today said the referendum would be a 'British declaration of independence'.
Speaking to the BBC, he insisted there was no reason new trade deals could not be negotiated 'pretty swiftly'.
SOUND-BITE DAVE: VOTERS WARNED FOR AVALANCHE OF KEY SLOGANS FROM PM
Voters have been warned to expect a four month campaign of soundbites as David Cameron repeatedly uses a handful of key phrases to try and convince people the country would be less safe if we left the EU.
In the 48 hours after being handed his renegotiation deal in Brussels, the former PR man deployed the carefully crafted soundbites over and over again as he hit the airwaves to set out his referendum stall.
During a 20-minute interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show today the Prime Minister three times warned that a vote to leave would be a 'leap in the dark'.
Mr Cameron also used the phrase, which is expected to be a cornerstone of the In campaign that has been nicknamed 'Project Fear', in a speech in Brussels on Friday night and again the next morning in Downing Street as he announced the date of the referendum.
In the three appearances, which were all televised, Mr Cameron used the slogan 'safer, stronger, better off', nine times – including twice in the address outside Number 10 that lasted only four minutes.
He separately used the words 'safe' and 'safer' another eleven times.
Despite failing to secure the curbs to migrant benefits promised at the election in the Tory manifesto, Mr Cameron repeated the expression 'something for nothing' six times as he attempted to sell the changes he did get that will stop newcomers being able to claim tax credits from day one.
Mr Cameron also delivered the catchphrase 'the best of both worlds' six times and 'strength in numbers' three times.
During the last parliament in the run up to last year's election, Mr Cameron deployed the phrase 'long-term economic plan' so many times it became a standing joke in Westminster.
By repeating his referendum soundbites ad nauseum, Mr Cameron is no doubt hoping to get the messages lodged in the public's consciousness in the run up to the vote on 23 June.
It is thought the short sharp messaging will have been tested in focus groups.
HOW BoJo'S VIEWS HAVE VEERED LIKE A SHOPPING TROLLEY
Boris Johnson’s backing for Brexit comes after months and years of indecision, prevarication and fence-sitting.
As recently as last week, he was telling friends he was ‘veering all over the place like a shopping trolley’.
Here, in Boris’s own words, we reveal how he has kept on changing his mind.
IN
‘Look, I’m actually rather pro-European, actually. I certainly want a European community where one can go and scoff croissants, drink delicious coffee, learn foreign languages and generally make love to foreign women.’
January 1997
‘We can’t leave Europe. We’re part of the European Continent. What is the English Channel? It’s a primeval river that got slightly too big … We’re always going to be a part of Europe psychologically.’
August 2015, Der Spiegel
‘We want, in an ideal world, to stay in a reformed European Union but I think the price of getting out is lower than it’s ever been. It’s better for us to stay in, but to stay in a reformed EU. That’s where I am.’
October 2015, BBC interview, Japan
‘The trouble is I’m not an “outer”.’ What he reportedly told eurosceptics trying to persuade him to lead the Leave campaign
January 2016
‘I’ve never been an Outer’. Boris to Eurosceptic Tory MP Bernard Jenkin after he was taunted in the House of Commons.
February 3, 2016
OUT
‘No matter how deep public anger, how many fishermen’s wives chain themselves to the railings in Downing Street, or how many trawlers tie up alongside the terrace of the House of Commons, the Government will not do it. That will not be the outcome of this debate. The objection is legal.
‘As long as Britain remains a signatory of the EU Treaty, it cannot unilaterally abjure one part of it without abjuring the whole.’
On fisheries policy. January 1995
‘I went there [Brussels] a pretty starry-eyed idealist. I came out a pretty vinegary sceptic.’ On his time as a journalist in Brussels.
May 2001
‘In the next couple of years we are entitled to pose the question, “What is the point of the EU?”.’
December 2013, Daily Telegraph
‘We have nothing to be afraid of in going for an alternative future...I’m sure there is a great and glorious future for Britain as an open, outward looking economy that has great trading relations with Europe, but that starts to think about the rest of the world where you are seeing huge growth. People should not be paranoid and scared about that option.’
August 2014, LBC Radio phone-in
‘It should be up to this Parliament and this country – not Jean-Claude Juncker – to decide if too many people are coming here. It is not that we object to immigration in itself ... It is about who decides; it is about who is ultimately responsible; it is about control.’
Speech to Tory conference, October 2015
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